Accredited Technical Masterclasses

ATM 08: Blue Green Infrastructure - Designing for a sustainable future [on-demand masterclass]

Continuing Education Unit Topic: Blue Green Infrastructure

With sustainable building practices playing a key role in developing and beautifying our cities and towns, Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) has emerged as a strategic solution in the infrastructure sector.

BGI aims to address sustainability and resilience challenges through a blend of natural and engineered systems, combining typical “green” spaces, such as parks and gardens, with “blue” spaces, such as rivers and wetlands. However, there are several challenges within the BGI space, including cost perceptions, lack of experience within the infrastructure sector, and a lack of evaluation of its long-term viability.

In this Accredited Technical Masterclass, our industry leaders will examine these challenges and offer their experience-based solutions to help you design and develop BGI. This masterclass is suitable for engineers and designers, decision-makers and strategy writers, municipal infrastructure managers, urban planners, landscape architects and designers, architects, asset management leads, and anyone who would like to expand their knowledge of BGI.

Join us for a unique opportunity to:

Learn about the range of BGI solutions available and how they can deliver sustainable outcomes.
Discover best-practice design guidance that can be tailored to specific geographies and key project objectives.
Discover key principles in the design, implementation, and operation of BGI, along with strategies to overcome common challenges.
Learn from case studies about successful BGI adoption.

Don’t miss the chance to earn internationally recognised Continuing Education Units from the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Complete the quiz at the end of the masterclass to earn 0.1 Continuing Education Unit.

This exclusive masterclass provides a unique opportunity to learn from leading industry experts and gain valuable insights into the world of Blue Green Infrastructure

Justine Bennett - Technical Director, Water & Environment, GHD

Justine is an environmental practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the water sector. Her work has focused on urban and peri-urban catchments earmarked as strategic growth or redevelopment areas. She is experienced in water management, helping develop integrated cities and realising the potential for enhanced community and environmental outcomes through the use of nature-based systems. Justine prefers to take a long-term, strategic, and multi-benefit approach to assisting clients in planning for the future in a flexible and responsive manner. She enjoys collaborating with diverse groups of stakeholders to generate innovative and adaptive approaches to addressing their concerns.

Sarah Andrew - Senior Water Resources Engineer, GHD

Sarah is an Associate, Senior Water Resources Engineer, and Project Manager for GHD’s Ontario Integrated Water Management team based out of Waterloo. She has over 17 years of experience in stormwater management related design, including both municipal and industrial green infrastructure. She has developed numerous surface water monitoring programs, managing both small and complex large-scale field and data monitoring programs using manual and real-time data collection methods. Her experience with performance monitoring and meteorological systems has led to Sarah designing climate resilient SWM infrastructure using both traditional and green elements.

Scott Torrance - Lead Landscape Architect, GHD

Scott is a landscape architect with 30 years of experience in the design, approvals, and construction of mix-use development, transit, and public realm projects. He has an award-winning track record of delivering complex, multi-disciplinary urban projects, excelling in team organisation, business development, design, construction documents, and contract administration. Scott is passionate about design excellence, with key project experience in sustainable, low-impact development and nature-based design in urban environments. His goal is to connect people to nature and promote biodiversity in the urban environment.